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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the ... -Elysees Here's a small tip for your next visit to the Eiffel Tower: Don't go when ... rain and a strong breeze while waiting in line -- luckily I was under a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The second-best picture we took in Paris This entry is dedicated to Regis Philbin.

  

  architecture in 1940, designed the glass pyramids in front of the Louvre. "Agh, I'm so tired." "Guys! We can get a great picture with the pyramid. Get in it!" "What?" "Alright, just move back a little." "Sam, somebody's going

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  communication strategy to showcase a constantly changing mix of videos -- from old ... more robots in the Media Lab." And to that I say, of course, that’s MIT alright, and we plan to show you more of that in the coming months, so stay

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day ... figured it out, but I'm slowly stepping back far enough to move forward in a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to ... to work, I quickly ordered a new adapter online the following day. It ... on my UROP, which involves computing statistics about traffic in a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  I LOVE TATTE💖💖💖 back in boston baby

  

  A Love Letter to Tatte August 30th, 2025 Dearest Tatte, It has been ... pastry selection and chic decorations. It is easy to feel lost in the sea ... mutual enemy: Flour Cafe.), I of course come straight to you! In fact, I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 30, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  . Excited to get fitted for my dentures. Anyway, I'm still hosed, and I have a ... only take a second, and I haven't blogged in so long that I got pushed ... got elected social chairs of Burton 1, and to celebrate that we had a Pi

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  paired with a mentor in the Boston area to do an original scientific ... Studies Program… every once in a while, I have time to take a break from ... signed in and got their t-shirts, they were taken out to Kresge Oval, a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  to wait for me. I have three months left in my undergraduate career, and I'm going to spend it having a blast with the people I love in a ... . Don't go comparing yourselves to other people who did or did not get in

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  to play in the pit orchestra for Assassins, a show performed by ... in London; he said that a neighbor had been phoning in to complain ... I troop downstairs once a day to practice, trumpet in one hand and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  applications that a lot of prospective MIT students are interested in how to use ... /labmates from when I was in my master's program have gone on to build careers in ... gender and race in urban computation? This course introduces students to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Wedding of All Time I walked Tim the beaver down the aisle

  

  be a thing. They thought about it for a bit, talked to Caltech’s admissions office, and then decided it was a bit too strange to officially ... sewn to the top of his head, and Bernoulli got a dentist appointment, a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  people from MIT here to take me in a van to campus?” Luckily, I eventually ... in what appeared to be a maze, I saw the dome, and I had a moment of ... your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  So You Want to Make a BrassRat? A very very very long year in review.

  

  makes a very cool scrapbook for us to see how far we came in terms of the ... a trip to the Herff Jones manufacturing plant in Rhode Island to see ... 't begin to explain the fear in my soul that day) Make a scrapbook at our

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 31, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  to internships in that you meet people in a field you might be ... alums happy to talk about what they majored in, where they lived, and what ... with the Alumni Association to create externship listings that might be a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  the truly worthy will be able to dance at graduation with a diploma in ... ). In a nutshell, everybody at MIT has to either take or pass out of the ... , because I should be listed as a year 3 student with a second major in VII-A

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  's contributions to cancer research. I'll reprint it below: Even without a medical ... development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor ... professor, Robert A. Weinberg, won one of the largest prizes awarded to cancer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  talking to such a diverse group has helped me tremendously in learning about ... have been in Nepal since then. I am currently volunteering at a Buddhist ... in cooking, laundry, etc. I am having a great stay in South Asia, and I

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  As the semester begins to wind down, it comes time to turn in ... design project for one of my classes, 2.005, where we had to design a floating buoy-like structure to support a 700,000 kilo tower and rotor combo

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the ... boarded a flight bound for Mexico City, ready to start my summer in Mexico ... neighborhoods of Mexico City to climate change. In between exploring a city of 20

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010